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As Asia begins its trading day, BTC is down 3% in the past 24 hours, changing hands at $113,000, while Ether is also in the red, down 5.6% to $4,100, extending a week of weakness across majors.
The pullback comes despite a continued stream of bullish headlines, underscoring what market observers say is a widening gap between short-term price action and longer-term structural progress.
In a recent report, Glassnode frames the decline as a function of fragility: spot momentum is fading, leverage is stretched, and profit-taking pressure is building. Even though U.S.-listed spot ETFs attracted nearly $900 million in inflows last week, Glassnode warns that without renewed…


